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List of abbreviations

U4SSC United for Smart Sustainable Cities
ITU International Telecommunication Union
UN United Nations
ISO International Organization for Standardization
CTN Technical Committee for Standardization
AENOR Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification
UNE Spanish Association for Standardization
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNEP-FI United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change
UN-Habitat United Nations Human Settlements Programme
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNOP United Nations Office for Partnerships
UNU-EGOV United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance
UN-Women United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
UNWTO United Nation World Tourism Organization
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WHO World Health Organization
AI Artificial Intelligence
VR Virtual Reality
AR Augmented Reality
IoT Internet of Things
WTTC World Travel &Tourism Council
GDP Gross Domestic Product
QoL quality of life
DMO Destination Management/Marketing Organizations
ICTs Information and communication technologies
SDO Standards Developing Organization
SSC Smart Sustainable Cities
SDG Sustainable Development Goal
ITS Intelligent Transport Systems
SEGITTUR State Mercantile Society for the Management of Innovation and Tourism Technologies
Red DTI Smart Tourism Destination Network
STD Smart Tourist Destination
HDIC Digital, smart, connected hotel
PAS Publicly Available Specification
SMEs Small and Medium sized Enterprises
PoI Point of Interest

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